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the new season will be the leagues 125th the lunchtime kick-off between 2 of the founder clubs have anniversary status, burnley and Bolton in 1888 both sides had an opening day to forget, on 9th September 5000 people turned up to see burnley beaten 5-2 by preston, while in front of 3000 Bolton were beaten 6-3 by derby county. fred Dewhurst ( preston) was the 1st deliberate goal in the new competition- coming soon after aston villas gershom cox scored into his own net. the leagues oldest club, notts county, play away at the oldest professional ground, Sheffield uniteds bramall lane, while founder members Accrington travel to the newest bround to face the newest member, Newport. in league 2, Rochdale play Hartlepool for the 137th time- the most played fixture in football league history.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:35:08 +0000

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